Welcome to the Jewelry District, a podcast by J.C.K. brought to you by the De Beers Institute of Diamonds.

Today, Rob Bates and Victoria Gamowski talk with Stanley Zale, principal consultant at Hillen Company.

Hey, everyone, welcome to the jewelry district.

This is Victoria Gimelsky, editor-in-chief of JCPay and JCPayonline.com, calling in from

Los Angeles, and I'm with.

Rob Bates, news director of J-C-K and J-C-K Online.com, calling in from New York City.

How you doing?

Doing good.

Feeling a little more awake this week.

I don't know.

I felt like last week, and of course we're recording this in the second week of January.

You know, right back after the New Year, felt a little not quite ready for the barrage of emails.

But I think I'm finally sort of back in the swing of things.

What about you?

I'm okay.

You know, somebody from California, who I won't name, was mocking the New York City weather because it is

getting kind of cold. It hasn't, I don't think it's officially snowed, but he was mentioning how

much better the weather is in California. So I assume that's what you're finding. Yes, it's quite

chilly here, but yes, I must say we're sunny. It's nice to be outdoors, although it feels like January, at least California, January. Is it just feels right, right? I mean, it's just... Yeah, it's winter.

You know, you want a little snow.

You know, it doesn't have to be like a million snowstorms, but...

No, no.

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